As reported, Allan Poston, the technical adviser for UNDP’s mine action group in Sri Lanka, wrote that "after reviewing additional photographs from the investigation teams, I have determined that there are cluster sub-munitions in the area where the children were collecting scrap metal and in the house where the accident [the death of a child] occurred. This is the first time that there has been confirmed unexploded sub-munitions found in Sri Lanka."

Earlier this month, the Permanent Representative of an Asia Group member told Inner City Press, of Silva,

"the gentleman’s appearance is not welcome. They have chosen to escalate, sending public letters, casting doubt on Frechette‘s integrity. It becomes a big story, and member states in the end will say it’s unacceptable… No one knew who Shavendra Silva was. Once you began to publish the stories, we came know. If we had known from the beginning of course it would never have happened. If they continue to push it, there would be enough delegates in the Asia group to say ‘enough.’"